1868 CRY BEAR LAKE MONSTER BEAR LAKE MONSTER - THE CONFESSED 1868 UTAH-IDAHO HOAX July 1868. Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho border. Joseph C. Rich reports a serpentine 'water devil' in the lake, drawing on real Shoshone tradition. Sightings escalate for three years. Rich confesses to fabricating it in 1894, but reports continue sporadically for over a century afterward, as recently as 2002. July 1868. Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho border. Joseph C. Rich reports a serpentine 'water devil' in the lake, drawing on real Shoshone tradition. Sightings escalate for three years. Rich confesses to fabricating it in 1894, but reports continue sporadically for over a century afterward, as recently as 2002. 1973 CRY ENFIELD HORROR ENFIELD HORROR - THE THREE-LEGGED ILLINOIS CRYPTID FLAP April 1973. Enfield, Illinois. Henry McDaniel reports a three-legged, gray, four-and-a-half-foot creature at his door, assessed as a credible witness by responding police. A separate boy's report is later confirmed a prank. A 1978 sociology paper studies the flap itself as a case of collective behavior. April 1973. Enfield, Illinois. Henry McDaniel reports a three-legged, gray, four-and-a-half-foot creature at his door, assessed as a credible witness by responding police. A separate boy's report is later confirmed a prank. A 1978 sociology paper studies the flap itself as a case of collective behavior. 1972 CRY MOMO MOMO - THE 1972 MISSOURI MONSTER FLAP July 1972. Louisiana, Missouri. Two Harrison siblings independently report a seven-foot, bloodied, foul-smelling creature carrying a dead dog. Submitted tracks are judged a hoax by a zoo director, but a retired teacher's claim that three former students confessed has never been confirmed, and the original sighting was never actually debunked. July 1972. Louisiana, Missouri. Two Harrison siblings independently report a seven-foot, bloodied, foul-smelling creature carrying a dead dog. Submitted tracks are judged a hoax by a zoo director, but a retired teacher's claim that three former students confessed has never been confirmed, and the original sighting was never actually debunked. 1893 CRY HODAG HODAG - THE CONFESSED 1893 RHINELANDER HOAX October 1893. Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Timber cruiser Eugene Shepard publishes an account of capturing a spiked, dynamite-killed beast, then a second, live specimen shown at county fairs. He confesses before 1900 once the Smithsonian announces a visit. The town keeps the monster anyway. October 1893. Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Timber cruiser Eugene Shepard publishes an account of capturing a spiked, dynamite-killed beast, then a second, live specimen shown at county fairs. He confesses before 1900 once the Smithsonian announces a visit. The town keeps the monster anyway. 1773 CRY WAITOREKE WAITOREKE - SOUTH ISLAND OTTER TALK WITH NO TRAY IN WELLINGTON Waitoreke. South Island, New Zealand. Otter-like river animal that official zoology will not stamp. Not Nessie. Not Champ. No tray in Wellington. No organised hunt that produced a body. No-tray status still leaves the Maori-named river cryptid without a museum accession number. Waitoreke. South Island, New Zealand. Otter-like river animal that official zoology will not stamp. Not Nessie. Not Champ. No tray in Wellington. No organised hunt that produced a body. No-tray status still leaves the Maori-named river cryptid without a museum accession number. 1732 CRY BARGUEST BARGUEST - YORKSHIRE BLACK DOG WITH NO HIDE IN LEEDS Barguest. Northern English black dog of Yorkshire lanes and churchyards. Cousin to Padfoot. Not Black Shuck. Not Peel Castle’s Moddey Dhoo. Write the shire when filing. No hide in Leeds. No hide was taken into evidence. Shire-specific hound lore still leaves Yorkshire without a specimen for the cabinet. Barguest. Northern English black dog of Yorkshire lanes and churchyards. Cousin to Padfoot. Not Black Shuck. Not Peel Castle’s Moddey Dhoo. Write the shire when filing. No hide in Leeds. No hide was taken into evidence. Shire-specific hound lore still leaves Yorkshire without a specimen for the cabinet. 1971 CRY GOATMAN GOATMAN - PRINCE GEORGES BRIDGES KEEP THE NAME Goatman. Prince George’s County, Maryland. 1971-72 paper stack on Fletchertown Road: hind legs, goat face in some tellings, dog and car as extras. The bridges kept the name. No hide. Not Loveland. Not Pope Lick. No hide was taken into evidence. Bridge-name lore still outruns any body on the Maryland card. Goatman. Prince George’s County, Maryland. 1971-72 paper stack on Fletchertown Road: hind legs, goat face in some tellings, dog and car as extras. The bridges kept the name. No hide. Not Loveland. Not Pope Lick. No hide was taken into evidence. Bridge-name lore still outruns any body on the Maryland card. 1636 CRY WENDIGO WENDIGO - ALGONQUIAN HUNGER NAME, NO MAP, NO HUNT Northern Algonquian Wendigo: hunger that becomes a person. Windigo, witiko, other spellings. Gaunt, winter, appetite without end. Magazines hung claws on it. A sentence about famine and greed. No map. No hunt. No definitive map closes the route. Hunger-person teaching still refuses a trailhead on the northern card. Northern Algonquian Wendigo: hunger that becomes a person. Windigo, witiko, other spellings. Gaunt, winter, appetite without end. Magazines hung claws on it. A sentence about famine and greed. No map. No hunt. No definitive map closes the route. Hunger-person teaching still refuses a trailhead on the northern card. 1577 CRY BLACK SHUCK BLACK SHUCK - BUNGAY STORM DOOR MARKED, HOUND UNTYPED 4 August 1577. Bungay and Blythburgh, Suffolk. A storm, a black dog through two congregations. Scorch marks on Blythburgh’s door—the door is the object; the eye is the sermon. Fleming prints a pamphlet that year. Door-marked church fabric still carries Black Shuck as Suffolk storm lore without a typed hound. 4 August 1577. Bungay and Blythburgh, Suffolk. A storm, a black dog through two congregations. Scorch marks on Blythburgh’s door—the door is the object; the eye is the sermon. Fleming prints a pamphlet that year. Door-marked church fabric still carries Black Shuck as Suffolk storm lore without a typed hound. 1955 CRY LOVELAND FROGMAN LOVELAND FROGMAN - POLICE ROAD FIGURE WOULD NOT STAY Loveland, Ohio. 1972 police nights: Ray Shockey, then Mark Matthews, something on the road that looks like a man and a frog. Matthews later thinks a large iguana. 1955 bank report is a separate stack. No hide. It would not stay to be measured. File status is entered as would not stay. Loveland, Ohio. 1972 police nights: Ray Shockey, then Mark Matthews, something on the road that looks like a man and a frog. Matthews later thinks a large iguana. 1955 bank report is a separate stack. No hide. It would not stay to be measured. File status is entered as would not stay. 1936 CRY THYLACINE THYLACINE - LAST CAPTIVE DIES, HOBART WET-ROAD FILE OPEN Tasmania. Official paper stamps the striped marsupial wolf gone when Benjamin dies in Hobart Zoo on 7 September 1936. Bounties already did the arithmetic. Sightings after do not stop. Wet-road file open. The last date the state was willing to write. File status is entered as wet road. Tasmania. Official paper stamps the striped marsupial wolf gone when Benjamin dies in Hobart Zoo on 7 September 1936. Bounties already did the arithmetic. Sightings after do not stop. Wet-road file open. The last date the state was willing to write. File status is entered as wet road. 1923 CRY KONGAMATO KONGAMATO - ZAMBIA OVERWHELMER OF BOATS WITH NO SPECIMEN Western Zambia and border rivers. Flying thing the size of a canoe, reddish, said to knock boats. Frank Melland prints the Lozi name Kongamato in 1923: overwhelmer of boats. Later writers add a pterosaur. No specimen. Boat-loses folklore still leaves the river claim without a hide or bone in any museum drawer. Western Zambia and border rivers. Flying thing the size of a canoe, reddish, said to knock boats. Frank Melland prints the Lozi name Kongamato in 1923: overwhelmer of boats. Later writers add a pterosaur. No specimen. Boat-loses folklore still leaves the river claim without a hide or bone in any museum drawer. 1802 CRY BEAST OF DEAN BEAST OF DEAN - FOREST PIG HUNT COMES HOME EMPTY Forest of Dean, Parkend to Bream. Early nineteenth-century talk of a pig that would not stay a pig. 1802 village hunt comes home empty; 1807 kill is later retelling. Wild boar now official in the same trees. Hunt-empty return still leaves the Beast of Dean as folklore beside today’s managed boar. Forest of Dean, Parkend to Bream. Early nineteenth-century talk of a pig that would not stay a pig. 1802 village hunt comes home empty; 1807 kill is later retelling. Wild boar now official in the same trees. Hunt-empty return still leaves the Beast of Dean as folklore beside today’s managed boar. 1924 CRY TRUNKO TRUNKO - NATAL COAST PALE MASS DAYS THEN GONE Margate, Natal coast, 1 November 1924. Pale mass after a storm, a trunk or tail in the telling, hair like a covering. Photographs taken. Within days it is gone. No type. No museum piece. Days-then-gone carcass still leaves Trunko as a South African beach event without a preserved sample. Margate, Natal coast, 1 November 1924. Pale mass after a storm, a trunk or tail in the telling, hair like a covering. Photographs taken. Within days it is gone. No type. No museum piece. Days-then-gone carcass still leaves Trunko as a South African beach event without a preserved sample. 1750 CRY SELMA SELMA - SELJORD LAKE CAMERAS LEAVE WITH WATER Lake Seljord, Telemark. Local name Selma, also Seljordsormen. Shore talk of a long dark back; fountain head and a tourist office. Cameras come in summer and leave with water. No specimen. Cameras-empty returns still define the Norwegian lake serpent as summer effort without a frame that settled the species. Lake Seljord, Telemark. Local name Selma, also Seljordsormen. Shore talk of a long dark back; fountain head and a tourist office. Cameras come in summer and leave with water. No specimen. Cameras-empty returns still define the Norwegian lake serpent as summer effort without a frame that settled the species. 1978 CRY ISSIE ISSIE - LAKE IKEDA TWO-HUMP REPORTS WITH NO SPECIMEN Lake Ikeda, Kagoshima. Caldera about 233 metres deep. Tourist name Issie, built to rhyme with Ness, over an older mare-and-foal story about looking for her lost child. 1978: Matsubara still and about twenty two-hump reports. No specimen. Two-humps season still leaves the Japanese lake without a recovered animal. Lake Ikeda, Kagoshima. Caldera about 233 metres deep. Tourist name Issie, built to rhyme with Ness, over an older mare-and-foal story about looking for her lost child. 1978: Matsubara still and about twenty two-hump reports. No specimen. Two-humps season still leaves the Japanese lake without a recovered animal. 1817 CRY GLOUCESTER SEA SERPENT GLOUCESTER SEA SERPENT - HARBOR ANIMAL, LINNAEAN NAME FAILED August 1817. Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts. Shipmasters swear to a long animal. Linnaean Society names Scoliophis atlanticus; a small snake offered as the young fails. The first word to go is the Latin name. No carcass. Name-failed taxonomy still leaves the New England sea-serpent summer without a type. August 1817. Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts. Shipmasters swear to a long animal. Linnaean Society names Scoliophis atlanticus; a small snake offered as the young fails. The first word to go is the Latin name. No carcass. Name-failed taxonomy still leaves the New England sea-serpent summer without a type. 1635 CRY STORSJÖODJURET STORSJÖODJURET - JAMTLAND LAKE TRAP EMPTY WITH NO CARCASS Lake Storsjön, Jämtland. Shore talk of a long dark back. Frösö stone dated 1635 later read as a serpent warning. 1894 hunting company with harpoons and a trap. They do not catch it. No carcass on a dock. Trap-empty century still leaves Storsjöodjuret as Swedish lake lore without a landed animal. Lake Storsjön, Jämtland. Shore talk of a long dark back. Frösö stone dated 1635 later read as a serpent warning. 1894 hunting company with harpoons and a trap. They do not catch it. No carcass on a dock. Trap-empty century still leaves Storsjöodjuret as Swedish lake lore without a landed animal. 1238 CRY BROSNO DRAGON BROSNO DRAGON - TVER LAKE WATER CLOSES WITH NO SPECIMEN Lake Brosno, Tver Oblast, near Andreapol. About forty-three metres deep. Shore talk of a sunken church on the western bed and a creature that submerged when people approached. Local name Brosnya. Evening water that closes when a boat comes. No specimen retained. Brosno dragon remains lake talk without a catch. Lake Brosno, Tver Oblast, near Andreapol. About forty-three metres deep. Shore talk of a sunken church on the western bed and a creature that submerged when people approached. Local name Brosnya. Evening water that closes when a boat comes. No specimen retained. Brosno dragon remains lake talk without a catch. 1920 CRY DEATH WORM DEATH WORM - GOBI INTESTINE WORM WITH NO JAR HOME Southern Gobi. Allghoi khorkhoi, intestine worm: thick, red, said to kill at a distance after rain. Roy Chapman Andrews hears it in the 1920s and does not bring one home. Later cameras photograph dunes. No jar. Death-worm lore still leaves the Mongolian desert without a specimen in preservative. Southern Gobi. Allghoi khorkhoi, intestine worm: thick, red, said to kill at a distance after rain. Roy Chapman Andrews hears it in the 1920s and does not bring one home. Later cameras photograph dunes. No jar. Death-worm lore still leaves the Mongolian desert without a specimen in preservative. 1980 CRY MOKELE-MBEMBE MOKELE-MBEMBE - LIKOUALA LONG-NECK WATER ANIMAL WITH NO CARCASS Likouala and Lake Tele talk. Mokele-mbembe, one who stops the flow of rivers: long-necked water animal. Colonial officers write the name. Mackal expeditions in the 1980s come home light. No bone. No carcass. River-stopper tradition still outruns every expedition return from the Congolese waterways. Likouala and Lake Tele talk. Mokele-mbembe, one who stops the flow of rivers: long-necked water animal. Colonial officers write the name. Mackal expeditions in the 1980s come home light. No bone. No carcass. River-stopper tradition still outruns every expedition return from the Congolese waterways. 1933 CRY EMELA-NTOUKA EMELA-NTOUKA - CONGO HORNED SWAMP ANIMAL WITH NO SPECIMEN Congo basin Likouala talk. Emela-ntouka, killer of elephants: a horned swamp animal that is not a rhino in the descriptions. Drawings collected. No hide. Not mokele-mbembe. No specimen left the swamp for a cabinet. Horned-swamp claim remains oral and sketched without a zoological type. Congo basin Likouala talk. Emela-ntouka, killer of elephants: a horned swamp animal that is not a rhino in the descriptions. Drawings collected. No hide. Not mokele-mbembe. No specimen left the swamp for a cabinet. Horned-swamp claim remains oral and sketched without a zoological type. 1846 CRY MINHOCÃO MINHOCÃO - BRAZILIAN GIANT EARTHWORM TALK WITH NO SPECIMEN Southern Brazilian highlands. Saint-Hilaire 1846: a lake thing that pulls horses under. Fritz Muller in Nature, 1878: minhocao, great earthworm. An 1849 dead-skin claim. No specimen on a tray. Not quite so large as the country folk would have us believe. No specimen was retained for the cabinet. Southern Brazilian highlands. Saint-Hilaire 1846: a lake thing that pulls horses under. Fritz Muller in Nature, 1878: minhocao, great earthworm. An 1849 dead-skin claim. No specimen on a tray. Not quite so large as the country folk would have us believe. No specimen was retained for the cabinet. 1980 CRY TAHOE TESSIE TAHOE TESSIE - DEEP LAKE WAKE CLUSTER WITH NO CARCASS Lake Tahoe. Washoe tradition first; English Tahoe Tessie name mid-century. 1980s wake cluster on water so clear that a myth has room to hide. About 1,600 feet of depth. No carcass. Deep-water wake reports remain on file without a body from either Nevada or California shore. Lake Tahoe. Washoe tradition first; English Tahoe Tessie name mid-century. 1980s wake cluster on water so clear that a myth has room to hide. About 1,600 feet of depth. No carcass. Deep-water wake reports remain on file without a body from either Nevada or California shore. 1898 CRY BEAST OF BUSCO BEAST OF BUSCO - FULK LAKE TURTLE HUNT UNTIL DAM BROKE Fulk Lake, Churubusco, Indiana. 1898 look at a giant turtle; 1949 hunt for Oscar. Dam breaks; the wrong diver kit is delivered. Oscar never landed. Dam-broke and wrong-equipment paper still close the Beast of Busco as a lake hunt without a specimen on the Indiana card. Fulk Lake, Churubusco, Indiana. 1898 look at a giant turtle; 1949 hunt for Oscar. Dam breaks; the wrong diver kit is delivered. Oscar never landed. Dam-broke and wrong-equipment paper still close the Beast of Busco as a lake hunt without a specimen on the Indiana card. 2000 CRY SKUNK APE SKUNK APE - MYAKKA UNSIGNED PRINTS IN FLORIDA SWAMP Southern Florida skunk ape. Myakka photographs, December 2000, arrive with an unsigned letter from a sender who prefers to remain anonymous; Eckerd lab looks at the prints. Dave Shealy of Ochopee has tape the same year; Smithsonian later hosts footage as an object of study. No body. Unsigned prints still lead the Florida swamp card. Southern Florida skunk ape. Myakka photographs, December 2000, arrive with an unsigned letter from a sender who prefers to remain anonymous; Eckerd lab looks at the prints. Dave Shealy of Ochopee has tape the same year; Smithsonian later hosts footage as an object of study. No body. Unsigned prints still lead the Florida swamp card. 1993 CRY MAPINGUARI MAPINGUARI - AMAZON STENCH ACCOUNTS WITH NO BODY Amazon mapinguari accounts. David Oren’s hunter interviews include men who threw hair samples away because of the stench and would not keep them for science. No body recovered. Stench-discarded samples still mark how close physical evidence came and how little reached a laboratory shelf. Amazon mapinguari accounts. David Oren’s hunter interviews include men who threw hair samples away because of the stench and would not keep them for science. No body recovered. Stench-discarded samples still mark how close physical evidence came and how little reached a laboratory shelf. 1914 CRY NANDI BEAR NANDI BEAR - WESTERN KENYA PREDATOR NEVER CAUGHT Nandi bear of western Kenya. Hobley track report 1914. Museum opinion prefers hyena. Never caught or identified in the field. A Miocene jaw is not a 1914 animal. Never-caught status and hyena preference still leave the chemosit claim without a modern specimen on the East African card. Nandi bear of western Kenya. Hobley track report 1914. Museum opinion prefers hyena. Never caught or identified in the field. A Miocene jaw is not a 1914 animal. Never-caught status and hyena preference still leave the chemosit claim without a modern specimen on the East African card. 1846 CRY BUNYIP BUNYIP - MURRAY RIVER PATCHED SKULL WITH NO TYPE Murray–Murrumbidgee bunyip tradition. Fletcher skull of 1846; La Trobe says he would give a year’s salary for a specimen; Gunn writes in 1849. Patched skull entered the colonial record; no living type followed. Australian bunyip paper still holds folklore beside that incomplete cranial claim. Murray–Murrumbidgee bunyip tradition. Fletcher skull of 1846; La Trobe says he would give a year’s salary for a specimen; Gunn writes in 1849. Patched skull entered the colonial record; no living type followed. Australian bunyip paper still holds folklore beside that incomplete cranial claim. 1988 CRY POPE LICK POPE LICK - LIVE TRESTLE DEATHS WITH NO GOAT TAKEN Pope Lick trestle outside Louisville carries live freight. 1988 Schildknecht film feeds the goat-man legend. Documented deaths are by train on the tracks, not by a captured animal. No goat specimen was ever taken. The trestle does the killing on the Kentucky paper; the creature claim never produced a body. Pope Lick trestle outside Louisville carries live freight. 1988 Schildknecht film feeds the goat-man legend. Documented deaths are by train on the tracks, not by a captured animal. No goat specimen was ever taken. The trestle does the killing on the Kentucky paper; the creature claim never produced a body. 1933 CRY CADBOROSAURUS CADBOROSAURUS - VICTORIA TIMES EDITOR NAMES THE SERPENT Victoria Times, October 1933. Editor Archie Wills handles Cadborosaurus circumspectly and names Caddy. Naden Harbour carcass 1937; museum paper later calls whale. Wills afterward called the run fun. Editor’s serpent naming still sits beside museum whale findings on the British Columbia card. Victoria Times, October 1933. Editor Archie Wills handles Cadborosaurus circumspectly and names Caddy. Naden Harbour carcass 1937; museum paper later calls whale. Wills afterward called the run fun. Editor’s serpent naming still sits beside museum whale findings on the British Columbia card. 1968 CRY OGOPOGO OGOPOGO - OKANAGAN LAKE FOLDEN FILM WITH NO TYPE Okanagan Lake. First N’ha-a-itk in Indigenous tradition; English Ogopogo name in the 1920s. Folden film 1968. Ferry talk of monster-repelling devices. A Canadian stamp is not a type specimen. Folden footage and lake tradition still hold without a carcass from the British Columbia water. Okanagan Lake. First N’ha-a-itk in Indigenous tradition; English Ogopogo name in the 1920s. Folden film 1968. Ferry talk of monster-repelling devices. A Canadian stamp is not a type specimen. Folden footage and lake tradition still hold without a carcass from the British Columbia water. 1977 CRY YOWIE YOWIE - SPRINGBROOK CLUSTER OF AUSTRALIAN HAIRY HOMINID Australian yowie file runs from colonial yahoo reports into the 1970s naming. Rex Gilroy organises the hunt; Springbrook cluster peaks in 1977 with O’Chee among the named witnesses. Graham Joyner keeps the older yahoo word in print. 1977 cluster paper still holds without a type specimen from the ranges. Australian yowie file runs from colonial yahoo reports into the 1970s naming. Rex Gilroy organises the hunt; Springbrook cluster peaks in 1977 with O’Chee among the named witnesses. Graham Joyner keeps the older yahoo word in print. 1977 cluster paper still holds without a type specimen from the ranges. 1890 CRY TOMBSTONE THUNDERBIRD TOMBSTONE THUNDERBIRD - EPITAPH WINGED KILL AND MISSING PHOTOGRAPH Tombstone Epitaph, 26 April 1890. Two ranchers, Winchesters, a winged alligator-like thunderbird. The article does not mention a photograph. The famous plate later claimed in magazines has never been produced. Missing-plate tradition still outruns the 1890 text, which never promised a picture. Tombstone Epitaph, 26 April 1890. Two ranchers, Winchesters, a winged alligator-like thunderbird. The article does not mention a photograph. The famous plate later claimed in magazines has never been produced. Missing-plate tradition still outruns the 1890 text, which never promised a picture. 1910 CRY ORANG PENDEK ORANG PENDEK - KERINCI SHORT BIPED WITH NO PHOTOGRAPH Kerinci Seblat, Sumatra. Debbie Martyr and Jeremy Holden spend fifteen years on orang pendek. Casts that imply erect walking. Camera traps that did not fire. No type specimen. Holden said it looked like nothing in the books. No photograph closes the short-hominid claim on the Indonesian card. Kerinci Seblat, Sumatra. Debbie Martyr and Jeremy Holden spend fifteen years on orang pendek. Casts that imply erect walking. Camera traps that did not fire. No type specimen. Holden said it looked like nothing in the books. No photograph closes the short-hominid claim on the Indonesian card. 1963 CRY HONEY ISLAND HONEY ISLAND - FORD FOUR-TOED CASTS IN LOUISIANA SWAMP Harlan Ford in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp describes a figure that was not a bear once it turned around. Four-toed casts taken from the mud. Super 8 film surfaces after he died. Four-toed casts are on file; no body was taken from the swamp for a zoological close. Harlan Ford in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp describes a figure that was not a bear once it turned around. Four-toed casts taken from the mud. Super 8 film surfaces after he died. Four-toed casts are on file; no body was taken from the swamp for a zoological close. 1977 CRY CHAMP CHAMP - MANSI SINGLE FRAME AT LAKE CHAMPLAIN 5 July 1977. Sandra Mansi photographs something in Lake Champlain, gets the kids out of the water, and leaves the frame in a drawer for three years. Critics call it a three-hundred-pound duck. One frame remains the exhibit; no type specimen of Champ followed from the Vermont-New York lake. 5 July 1977. Sandra Mansi photographs something in Lake Champlain, gets the kids out of the water, and leaves the frame in a drawer for three years. Critics call it a three-hundred-pound duck. One frame remains the exhibit; no type specimen of Champ followed from the Vermont-New York lake. 1987 CRY MICHIGAN DOGMAN MICHIGAN DOGMAN - WTCM APRIL FOOL SONG THEN CALLS 1 April 1987. Steve Cook airs The Legend as an April Fool song on WTCM and says he made it up completely. Request lines keep calling. Luther cabin stories attach afterward. Michigan Dogman enters the file as a radio invention that outgrew the joke without producing a specimen. 1 April 1987. Steve Cook airs The Legend as an April Fool song on WTCM and says he made it up completely. Request lines keep calling. Luther cabin stories attach afterward. Michigan Dogman enters the file as a radio invention that outgrew the joke without producing a specimen. 1983 CRY BEAST OF EXMOOR BEAST OF EXMOOR - MARINES SENT AFTER LAMB KILLS IN DEVON 1983 Devon winter on Exmoor. Eric Ley’s lambs killed. Royal Marines deployed on Operation Beastie and would not take a shot at what they saw. Trevor Beer tracks the story. Ministry later: folklore. Marines were sent; ministry later filed the Beast of Exmoor as folklore without a carcass. 1983 Devon winter on Exmoor. Eric Ley’s lambs killed. Royal Marines deployed on Operation Beastie and would not take a shot at what they saw. Trevor Beer tracks the story. Ministry later: folklore. Marines were sent; ministry later filed the Beast of Exmoor as folklore without a carcass. 2011 CRY PANGBOCHE HAND PANGBOCHE HAND - MONASTERY RELIC DNA RETURNS HUMAN Pangboche monastery hand relic. Jimmy Byrne removes bone for Tom Slick’s network. 2011 testing by Ogden returns human DNA. Remainder stolen after television exposure; a replica is later returned. Human DNA result and theft still close the yeti-hand claim as human bone on paper. Pangboche monastery hand relic. Jimmy Byrne removes bone for Tom Slick’s network. 2011 testing by Ogden returns human DNA. Remainder stolen after television exposure; a replica is later returned. Human DNA result and theft still close the yeti-hand claim as human bone on paper. 1989 CRY BEAST OF BRAY ROAD BEAST OF BRAY ROAD - ELKHORN WEREWOLF FILE IN COUNTY FOLDER Elkhorn, Wisconsin. 1989-91 Bray Road wave. Lori Gipson on Halloween; county officer Fredrickson keeps a folder marked Werewolf; Linda Godfrey puts it in The Week on 29 December 1991. County folder and roadside sightings still define the Beast of Bray Road without a body. Elkhorn, Wisconsin. 1989-91 Bray Road wave. Lori Gipson on Halloween; county officer Fredrickson keeps a folder marked Werewolf; Linda Godfrey puts it in The Week on 29 December 1991. County folder and roadside sightings still define the Beast of Bray Road without a body. 1971 CRY FOUKE MONSTER FOUKE MONSTER - PORCH ATTACK AND THREE-TOED TRACKS IN ARKANSAS 1 May 1971. Ford house outside Fouke, Arkansas. An arm through the porch screen; Bobby Ford does not open the door. Three-toed tracks in the yard. Boggy Creek film the next year. Porch attack report and tracks are on file; no body followed from the Fouke Monster nights. 1 May 1971. Ford house outside Fouke, Arkansas. An arm through the porch screen; Bobby Ford does not open the door. Three-toed tracks in the yard. Boggy Creek film the next year. Porch attack report and tracks are on file; no body followed from the Fouke Monster nights. 1934 CRY LOCH NESS LOCH NESS - SURGEON PHOTOGRAPH AND TOY SUBMARINE ADMISSION April 1934. R. K. Wilson’s plate in the Daily Mail shows an object on Loch Ness water and becomes the Surgeon’s Photograph. Later named as a toy submarine with a wood putty head. The loch kept its watchers. Surgeon plate remains on file; later admission undercuts the object without ending the watch. April 1934. R. K. Wilson’s plate in the Daily Mail shows an object on Loch Ness water and becomes the Surgeon’s Photograph. Later named as a toy submarine with a wood putty head. The loch kept its watchers. Surgeon plate remains on file; later admission undercuts the object without ending the watch. 1995 CRY CHUPACABRA CHUPACABRA - 1995 PUERTO RICO GOATSUCKER NAMING EVENT Puerto Rico, 1995. Dead goats, a goatsucker name on the radio, Madelyne Tolentino at a Canóvanas window, Mayor Soto walking the brush. 1995 naming event is on the card; the animal was never held. Chupacabra enters the archive as a media-and-sighting wave without a type specimen. Puerto Rico, 1995. Dead goats, a goatsucker name on the radio, Madelyne Tolentino at a Canóvanas window, Mayor Soto walking the brush. 1995 naming event is on the card; the animal was never held. Chupacabra enters the archive as a media-and-sighting wave without a type specimen. 1995 CRY BEAST OF BODMIN BEAST OF BODMIN - MAFF STUDY FINDS NO VERIFIABLE BIG CAT Bodmin Moor. Farmers report dead ewes and a large cat. 1995 MAFF/ADAS study under Angela Browning finds no verifiable big cat; she wore a cat brooch to the announcement. Rhodes sold flock after losses. Ministry close found no animal for the cabinet, while local kill paper keeps the Beast of Bodmin name alive. Bodmin Moor. Farmers report dead ewes and a large cat. 1995 MAFF/ADAS study under Angela Browning finds no verifiable big cat; she wore a cat brooch to the announcement. Rhodes sold flock after losses. Ministry close found no animal for the cabinet, while local kill paper keeps the Beast of Bodmin name alive. 1988 CRY LIZARD MAN LIZARD MAN - SEVEN-FOOT FIGURE IN SCAPE ORE SWAMP June 1988. Christopher Davis changes a tyre by Scape Ore Swamp near Bishopville and reports a seven-foot figure with three fingers that takes the car roof. Swamp roadside report stands in the South Carolina paper. No body was taken in. Lizard Man claims still rest on that night and a handful of later roadside notes. June 1988. Christopher Davis changes a tyre by Scape Ore Swamp near Bishopville and reports a seven-foot figure with three fingers that takes the car roof. Swamp roadside report stands in the South Carolina paper. No body was taken in. Lizard Man claims still rest on that night and a handful of later roadside notes. 1976 CRY OWLMAN OWLMAN - FEATHERED BIRD-MAN AT MAWNAN CHURCH TOWER April 1976. Sisters June and Vicky Melling at Mawnan church tower describe a feathered bird-man above the Cornwall churchyard. Holiday cut short. Doc Shiels names it Owlman. Church-tower report is on file; no specimen followed, and later named sightings never produced a hide or clear photograph. April 1976. Sisters June and Vicky Melling at Mawnan church tower describe a feathered bird-man above the Cornwall churchyard. Holiday cut short. Doc Shiels names it Owlman. Church-tower report is on file; no specimen followed, and later named sightings never produced a hide or clear photograph. 1909 CRY JERSEY DEVIL JERSEY DEVIL - 1909 WINGED PANIC IN SOUTH JERSEY January 1909. South Jersey papers fill with a winged thing on woodsheds, trolleys, and fence rails. Older name in the same counties: Leeds Devil. A museum later briefly cages a kangaroo as exhibit. 1909 panic coverage still outruns any specimen, leaving the Jersey Devil as press and folklore on the same shelf. January 1909. South Jersey papers fill with a winged thing on woodsheds, trolleys, and fence rails. Older name in the same counties: Leeds Devil. A museum later briefly cages a kangaroo as exhibit. 1909 panic coverage still outruns any specimen, leaving the Jersey Devil as press and folklore on the same shelf. 1967 CRY PATTERSON-GIMLIN PATTERSON-GIMLIN - BLUFF CREEK SIXTEEN-MILLIMETER BIGFOOT FILM 20 October 1967. Bluff Creek. Fifty-three seconds of 16mm, 952 frames, Patterson operating the camera. Frame 352 remains the still most cited. Gimlin had a rifle and did not shoot. No specimen. The film is the whole of a Bigfoot claim that never produced a hide. 20 October 1967. Bluff Creek. Fifty-three seconds of 16mm, 952 frames, Patterson operating the camera. Frame 352 remains the still most cited. Gimlin had a rifle and did not shoot. No specimen. The film is the whole of a Bigfoot claim that never produced a hide. 1952 CRY FLATWOODS FLATWOODS - SPADE-HEADED FIGURE ON BRAXTON COUNTY HILL 12 September 1952. Seven people walk a Braxton County hill after a bright drop near Flatwoods. Spade-headed figure, oily mist, sickness. Kathleen May and Gene Lemon among the party. Not Point Pleasant. Multiple witnesses remain on the card; no closed explanation sits with the hill report. 12 September 1952. Seven people walk a Braxton County hill after a bright drop near Flatwoods. Spade-headed figure, oily mist, sickness. Kathleen May and Gene Lemon among the party. Not Point Pleasant. Multiple witnesses remain on the card; no closed explanation sits with the hill report. 1764 CRY BEAST OF GEVAUDAN BEAST OF GEVAUDAN - ROYAL HUNT PREDATOR KILLS IN MARGERIDE 1764-67. A predator in the Margeride kills dozens. The king’s gun-bearer shoots a wolf in 1765 and Versailles celebrates. People keep dying until Jean Chastel fires in June 1767. Official kills are logged; motive lines stay disputed. Antoine’s and Chastel’s papers still sit beside the unresolved hunter claims. 1764-67. A predator in the Margeride kills dozens. The king’s gun-bearer shoots a wolf in 1765 and Versailles celebrates. People keep dying until Jean Chastel fires in June 1767. Official kills are logged; motive lines stay disputed. Antoine’s and Chastel’s papers still sit beside the unresolved hunter claims. 1838 CRY SPRING-HEELED JACK SPRING-HEELED JACK - FLAME AND CLAWS AT JANE ALSOP'S GATE Old Ford, 20 February 1838. Jane Alsop answers the gate with a candle for a man who says they have caught Spring-heeled Jack. He throws off a cloak, spits blue-white flame, and tears her gown with metal claws. Helmet and claw descriptions from that night still fix the London identity as open. Old Ford, 20 February 1838. Jane Alsop answers the gate with a candle for a man who says they have caught Spring-heeled Jack. He throws off a cloak, spits blue-white flame, and tears her gown with metal claws. Helmet and claw descriptions from that night still fix the London identity as open. 1977 CRY DOVER DEMON DOVER DEMON - WATERMELON-HEAD FIGURE IN DOVER, MASSACHUSETTS 21-22 April 1977. Three independent teenage witnesses in Dover, Massachusetts, describe a small peach-skinned figure with a watermelon head and orange reflecting eyes. The window is twenty-six hours. No further confirmed reports. Bartlett’s Farm Street sketch still carries the description when later sightings fail to match. 21-22 April 1977. Three independent teenage witnesses in Dover, Massachusetts, describe a small peach-skinned figure with a watermelon head and orange reflecting eyes. The window is twenty-six hours. No further confirmed reports. Bartlett’s Farm Street sketch still carries the description when later sightings fail to match. 1966 CRY MOTHMAN MOTHMAN - WINGED HUMANOID SIGHTINGS IN POINT PLEASANT November 1966 to December 1967. Multiple witnesses around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, reported a large winged humanoid with glowing red eyes, often near the abandoned TNT area. Sightings largely ceased after the Silver Bridge collapse on 15 December 1967 that killed 46 people. November 1966 to December 1967. Multiple witnesses around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, reported a large winged humanoid with glowing red eyes, often near the abandoned TNT area. Sightings largely ceased after the Silver Bridge collapse on 15 December 1967 that killed 46 people. 1955 CRY KELLY-HOPKINSVILLE KELLY-HOPKINSVILLE - SUTTON FARMHOUSE HUMANOIDS IN KELLY, KENTUCKY Night of 21-22 August 1955. Multiple members of the Sutton family and guests at a farmhouse near Kelly, Kentucky, reported a prolonged close-range encounter with small, glowing, humanoid entities. The family fired on the figures for several hours before fleeing to the Hopkinsville police. One of the best-documented multi-witness entity cases of the 1950s. Night of 21-22 August 1955. Multiple members of the Sutton family and guests at a farmhouse near Kelly, Kentucky, reported a prolonged close-range encounter with small, glowing, humanoid entities. The family fired on the figures for several hours before fleeing to the Hopkinsville police. One of the best-documented multi-witness entity cases of the 1950s.